174: A unique ancient elf tree

Deep within the Ancient Elf Secret Realm.

The most precious magical plant in the Mist Coast's Wizard gathering place, the Tier 1 Ancient Elf Tree, grows there. This is an extremely lush tree, like a banyan tree that has lived for hundreds of years, a single tree forming a forest. One tree alone occupies dozens of acres, shining with the most brilliant green in this Secret Realm.

At a glance, it is a green ocean. Even without wind, there are still undulating waves of leaves, and the fresh scent of plants wafting towards you is refreshing.

Green Anglet stood before the dense forest of Ancient Elf Trees, holding three heavy treasure chest keys.

He couldn't help but marvel at the incredible creativity and unparalleled execution of the Ancient Wizards in transforming the world and nature.

"According to the academy's historical records, the Ancient Elf Tree in ancient times was not like this. The surviving drawings show a normal tree, only ten meters tall, with a canopy covering about a hundred square meters."

"I didn't expect that after the Ancient Wizards' magical modifications, this Ancient Elf Tree would become what it is now. This isn't a single tree; this is clearly a forest."

...This is the power of wisdom!

It is a symbol of the wisdom of Wizards who study, learn about, and transform the world.

Since the end of the ancient era, the entire Scales of Truth Wizard World fell into a great age of elemental madness and ebb, a period also known as the Dark Age.

The elemental density of the entire world plummeted like an avalanche, faster than a bear market in the stock market. The extraordinary began to fade, the advancement of Wizards became severely restricted, and coupled with the absence of destiny, the flame of Wizard civilization's inheritance was greatly threatened.

Thus, countless Ancient Wizards, in order to preserve the spark of civilization, began to set up various inheritance Secret Realms to perpetuate Wizard civilization.

Poorer Wizards directly built inheritance Secret Realms on the various continental fragments of the Wizard World, which was still scarred from the recent world war, then sealed them and left them for future generations. This is the main source of the various Ancient Secret Realms discovered today.

Richer Wizards grandly used various spatial Secret Realms as places for the inheritance of their thoughts and knowledge. They also sealed a batch of precious resources within the Secret Realms. Some were completely sealed, while others even sent future generations into the Secret Realms to multiply.

Research data from the Seven Towers Alliance indicates that the Ancient Elf Secret Realm Green Anglet is currently exploring is a resource inheritance-type Secret Realm left behind by an Ancient Wizard from the ancient era. After tens of thousands of years of historical evolution, the elemental density within the Secret Realm reached an extremely dangerous level, to the point where even the Wizard Array seal could no longer be maintained, and a loophole appeared. It was discovered by Wizards at the time over 3000 years ago.

Time changes everything.

Even though the Ancient Wizards sealed many precious resources, without sufficient elemental energy replenishment, many valuable resources turned to dust under the erosion of time.

The discovery of this Ancient Elf Secret Realm at the time created a large number of Formal Wizards and formed the prototype of the current Seven Towers Alliance. However, many precious resources were only one-time. The Wizards at the time had limited means, and many good things could not be preserved... Only this Ancient Elf Tree survived, thanks to the full transformation and support of the Wizards.

It is said that this Ancient Elf Tree has undergone a total of three rounds of large-scale transformation.

The first round involved grafting the excellent characteristics of local high-quality banyan trees. This is the reason for the single-tree-forming-a-forest scene that Green Anglet sees today. The Ancient Elf Tree requires too much nutrition to grow, but the soil of the Secret Realm has become quite barren after tens of thousands of years of history. In the current environment, the only way was to accumulate in quantity, increasing the channels for the Ancient Elf Tree to absorb nutrients, madly piling on fertilizer and countless root systems, to successfully meet the Ancient Elf Tree's growth needs.

The second round involved setting up an underground magic net array, collecting the elements of the entire Secret Realm to nourish this Ancient Elf Tree. When the Secret Realm was discovered, the elemental density within it, after tens of thousands of years of consumption, was already extremely low. As mentioned earlier, Green Anglet found the Secret Realm to be almost a magic-free environment with extremely low elemental density when he entered. This is because the elements of the entire Secret Realm were extracted to nourish the Ancient Elf Tree.

When the seal of this Ancient Secret Realm was opened, it already bordered the space of the Mist Coast. The Ancient Wizards then fully opened this Secret Realm, utilizing the principle of elemental fluidity—

Elemental energy always diffuses from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration.

By supplementing the extremely low concentration within the Ancient Secret Realm with the high concentration of elements from the Mist Coast, the Secret Realm's ecology was slowly restored. However, with the Ancient Elf Tree, a major energy consumer, present, the elements of the Ancient Secret Realm were essentially all used to nourish the Ancient Elf Tree. This is what made possible the grand spectacle of harvesting 3 mature fruits of life every hundred years.

The third round was the Wizards' large-scale sacrifice every hundred years. The location of each treasure chest key has a large altar. Only by activating the altar and offering enough sacrifices will the treasure chest key appear. This wave of large-scale sacrifices is the sustenance for the fruit of life to be conceived in the next hundred years... Green Anglet used the three treasure chest keys to open the three guardian Wizard Arrays left by the Ancient Wizards at the Ancient Elf Tree one by one.

He slowly moved forward, gradually delving deeper into this forest.

At the end of the path, Green Anglet discovered an ancient and weathered Wizard Tower!

This is one of the core pillars of the entire Ancient Elf Secret Realm's underground magic net array.

Green Anglet did not dare to be negligent. First, he performed a solemn Wizard's grand etiquette to this ancient and rustic, only 20-meter-tall gray-white Wizard Tower. This was a show of respect for his predecessors.

"To my esteemed predecessors, I, your junior Wizard Green Anglet, salute you. I hope you will bless me to successfully break through to Formal Wizard without any mishaps or dangers."

Then he prayed to the heavens, to the supreme The Crown of the Scales of Truth:

"Great The Crown of the Scales of Truth, your most beloved child sincerely prays to you, bless Wizard Green Anglet to successfully break through to Formal Wizard. You are the most generous, you are the most loving..."

Finally, Green Anglet encouraged himself:

"Green Anglet, keep going. Ten years of sharpening a sword, today is the day to test its blade. I've endured so much hardship and fatigue along this journey. It's time to reap the fruits of victory. I must, I must succeed right away."

...After completing this series of preparations, Green Anglet pushed open the door of the ancient Wizard Tower.

Following the process, he first climbed the stairs to the very top, the fifth floor, and harvested the most precious prize—the fruit of life.

The mature fruit of life was simple and unassuming, like an ordinary green apple. However, when Green Anglet held it in his hand, an almost uncontrollable desire arose:

"Eat it, eat it..."

Every cell, every nerve in his body seemed to be shouting, urging Green Anglet.

Green Anglet quickly placed this hard-won mature fruit of life into a special small box.

Only then did he wipe away a bead of sweat.

"Of course, I'll eat you, but not now, and not here."